Monthly Archives: February 2006

New project

Posted on February 28, 2006 by peter

Yesterdag I had an interview at a major Dutch broadcaster for the secondment (=detachering?) position of Technical Lead / Architect for a huge Web 2.0/AJAX extension on their existing webapplication(s). I wasn’t the only one in the race; Ordina had … Continue reading →

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Orange belt!

Posted on February 28, 2006 by peter

YES!!! Today I succeeded my Java SE Intermed exam with a score of 97%, which means I missed only one question: StringBuffer methods are all synchronized. true or false? and, yes, woohoo I got my Orange belt.

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Passed the JBB JDBC Basic and Hibernate Certif exams

Posted on February 27, 2006 by peter

Today I passed the JDBC Basic and Hibernate Certif exams! JDBC Basic 02-27-2006 exams page Hibernate Certif 02-27-2006 exams page

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RAD Race ruby

Posted on February 27, 2006 by peter

In a previous post I mentioned two Finalist teams participating in the RAD Race event. The following post (Dutch!) contains the comments of the Ruby/Rails team on the ir results: http://rubyenrails.nl/articles/2006/02/27/rad-race-nog-niet-gewonnen Seems Ruby/Rails did very well! We’ll have to wait … Continue reading →

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Java vs. Ruby

Posted on February 26, 2006 by peter

After finding out about technorati (from the site: Technorati is the authority on what’s going on in the world of weblogs) by clicking the icon on the railsguru site I discoverd something really neat.

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DWR

Posted on February 26, 2006 by peter

Tomorrow I will hear whether I’m going to be the architect/team-lead on a major web 2.0 project, therefor I decided to have a look at the current state of some ajax frameworks. Since I have used prototype on a couple … Continue reading →

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Frappr – DukeKids

Posted on February 26, 2006 by peter

Using frappr people can generate maps containing members of a specific community. Someone decided to start a map containg Java (Black Belt) developers! Not to many people in the Netherlands yet though.

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Coincidence?

Posted on February 24, 2006 by peter

Today we had a company ‘borrel’ (Dutch for getting some drinks in a pub together..) and a nice dinner. No specific reason. After the drinks we went to a restaurant for dinner… and gues where we went. We went to … Continue reading →

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Google adsense… so long and thanks for the clicks!

Posted on February 23, 2006 by peter

I recieved the following e-mail from Google; Hello Peter Maas, It has come to our attention that invalid clicks have been generated on the Google ads on your site(s). We have therefore disabled your Google AdSense account. Please understand that … Continue reading →

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Passed the JBB ‘Servlet Basic’ exam.

Posted on February 23, 2006 by peter

I just passed the ‘Servlet basic exam! My current JBB level is 21 knowledge points… but still no exam to get my orange belt . Servlet Basic 02-23-2006 exams page By the way, if you look at the JBB site … Continue reading →

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